One night, he cooks her a sumptuous multi-course meal.
The man she ultimately marries (not Mattia) loves food. Alice's physical scar, a gimpy leg, morphs her into a clumsy anorexic. These childhood traumas make Alice and Mattia lifelong misfits, variously physically and psychologically scarred. When he looks for her in the darkness, she is nowhere to be found, never to be seen again. He takes a detour into the neighbourhood park, leaves Michela there by a picnic table among some trees, telling her to stay put, he'll pick her up on his way home. It's the first party he has ever been invited to, and he's miffed that he has in tow his severely developmentally delayed twin sister, Michela.
In Chapter 2, Mattia Balossino trudges off to a friend's birthday party.
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